“We are a selling club. The money we get, every penny goes back into football.”

The news will come as a blow to fans, who have the seen the current squad falter this season.

City go into the final two games of the season just two points clear of the relegation zone and needing a result against league leaders Scunthorpe United this Saturday.

It is a far cry from the days when City finished eighth in League One in 2011.

Tisdale believes if they had kept that squad together they would be on the verge of the Premier League by now, but said there was little hope of them doing that.

“If I could have kept all those players, we would be on the verge of the Premier League now,” he said. “There was no way we could keep that team together. You had players playing at the top end of League One on Conference wages.”

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@exerated
What a ridiculous comment. I get just as annoyed as the next man with the way in which Tisdale and Tagg have been guilty of alienating potential customers with unnecessary, ill-advised and Gerald Ratner-esque statements in the local media every off-season. While I am broadly a Tisdale supporter this sort of thing has the uncomfortable whiff of the Dynamic Duo looking to cover their own backs.
However in this instance Tidale was addressing a fans' forum - the Echo are merely reporting on proceedings, not interviewing the man himself. What is he supposed to do when the issue of strengthening the squad is put to him by fans? Lie?